Typical Day in Role:
The DevOps Specialist contributes to the ongoing support and operations for applications within Global Finance and Risk Technologies.
The incumbent will handle Application Production Operations.
The incumbent will be a key contact with application development teams to ensure Production operations are automated and efficient.
Support the Operations of critical Risk Applications such as Bancware (Asset Liability Management -ALM), RCRR, iFRS9, and others.
– assessments into Application Operations Maturity and provide automation improvement recommendations to development teams
– Executing/monitoring Monthly/Quarterly Operations (shift hours will be required)
– Ensuring ongoing communication of Operation status, completing regular status reports and escalating issues, as required.
– As a part of a support team provide excellent services and become a trusted advisor to customers via proactive and enthusiastic social engagement, technical depth and highest level of customer satisfaction in every interaction.
– Recommend and implement improvements, document knowledge in the form of incident notes and technical articles through team’s knowledge base and Bank-wide social media. Prepare, coordinate and lead technical trainings for end users and team members.
– Work effectively in a team environment by :
o Collaborating with other team members, internal customers and other Scotiabank teams
o Acquiring knowledge from peers as from self-learning.
o Coaching other team/department members on the areas of expertise
o Actively participate in team’s huddles
Candidate Requirements/Must Have Skills:
1) 3-4 years of experience in DevOps (or) Strong system administration skills for UNIX (AIX), MS Windows
2) Experience in using Tidal as a sequencer for operations and big data & hadoop
3) Database query execution – MS SQL, Oracle and MS Active directory
Nice-To-Have Skills:
strong system programming skills, Autosys, Talent and scripting.
Ability to use modern project and issue management tools (Atlassian Confluence and ServiceNow ) for tracking own tasks and creating documentation/wiki
Knowledge of Datastage, MS .NET or .NET Core framework and experience with MS TFS collaboration platform as an end user and/or administrator